Meeting the demand for future dental school faculty: trends, challenges, and responses

This report presents data from ADEA's 2001-02 survey of vacant budgeted faculty positions and examines challenges likely to exacerbate faculty shortages in the immediate future. The fifty-four dental schools responding to the survey reported 344 vacant budgeted positions, a decrease of 4 percent from 2000 to 2001. Seventy-nine percent of these vacancies are for full-time positions. Approximately one out of four dental schools has ten or more vacancies. Of just over 1,000 faculty separations during 2001-02, 53 percent were reported to be individuals leaving to enter private practice. There is no indication of a near-term reversal of the decade-long trend toward increasing budgeted vacancies, and the current economic environment along with other factors delineated in this report makes the challenge to recruit and retain dental faculty more difficult. ADEA and other stakeholders are currently pursuing a number of strategies to meet the demand for future dental school faculty.

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